Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkCharles Bukowski Quote: The Surprising Difference Between Democracy and Dictatorship
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"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you get to vote before you obey orders."
Charles Bukowski
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkAlexis De Tocqueville Quote on Democracy, Socialism & the Truth About Equality
"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common except a single word: equality. The difference is considerable: while democracy seeks equality in freedom, socialism seeks equality in restriction and subjugation."
Alexis De Tocqueville
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkÉtienne de La Boétie Quotes: Profound Insights on Tyranny and Power
"There are three kinds of tyrants: some obtain their proud position through elections by the people, others through armed force, and others through inheritance."
Étienne de La Boétie
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkJacob Bronowski Quote – Why No Science Is Safe from Politics and Corruption
"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power."
Jacob Bronowski
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkHermann Göring Quote on Leadership and War – The Dark Truth About Power and Manipulation
"Well, of course, the people don't want war. (...) But ultimately, it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always easy to get the people to go along with it, whether it is a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, a parliament, or a communist dictatorship."
Hermann Göring
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkWilliam E. Borah Quotes on Press Freedom – The Truth About Democracy Revealed!
"Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense — the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen"
William E. Borah
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkJoseph Pulitzer Quotes: The Power of the Press and Its Impact on the People
"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself."
Joseph Pulitzer
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkDemocracy Is a False Idol – Quote by H. P. Lovecraft
"Democracy is just a false idol — a mere catchword and illusion of inferior classes, visionaries and dying civilizations."
H. P. Lovecraft
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkWalter Lippmann on Bureaucracy and Power – The Shocking Truth!
"Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of organized minorities, is not exercising compulsion, it is evident that the more varied and comprehensive the regulation becomes, the more the state becomes a despotic power as against the individual. For the fragment of control over the government which he exercises through his vote is in no effective sense proportionate to the authority exercised over him by the government."
Walter Lippmann
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkRamin Peymani on Democracy’s Hidden Logic – The Shocking Truth!
"We are governed by limited people, whom limited people help to achieve majorities, with whom they make policies for limited people. This is the logic inherent in democracies, because due to the fundamental structure of the state form, in the end the dumbest prevail."
Ramin Peymani
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkPolitical Powerlessness of the Majority – Prof. Rainer Mausfeld
"70% of the population — namely the lower 70% on the income and wealth scale — have absolutely no influence on political decisions. Yes, it is no wonder that the population sinks into apathy and lethargy and then seeks refuge in some political positions with an ugly face, hoping that through them they can regain some influence at all."
Prof. Rainer Mausfeld
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkPolitical Interest Quote by G. Edward Griffin
"Those who are not interested in politics will be forever ruled by those who are."
G. Edward Griffin
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkMark Twain Quote about Government and Money
"We have the best government that money can buy."
Mark Twain
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkHeinrich Böll on Politics and Power
"Only those understand politics who have the possibility at any given time to realize their ideas of the policies to be made, that is, those who are in power."
Heinrich Böll
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkDemocracy and Media: Chris Hedges on Truth and Misinformation
"A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this away and a democracy dies. The fusion of news and entertainment, the rise of a class of celebrity journalists on television who define reporting by their access to the famous and the powerful, the retreat by many readers into the ideological ghettos of the Internet and the ruthless drive by corporations to destroy the traditional news business are leaving us deaf, dumb and blind."
Chris Hedges